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Jobs of the future, #1: Online Community Organizer

If you want to hire a union organizer, you probably know what to look for. Someone with resilience, passion, persistence and excellent interpersonal skills.

What if you want to hire someone to build an online community? Somebody to create and maintain a virtual world in which all the players in an industry feel like they need to be part of it? Like being the head of a big trade association, but without the bureaucracy and tedium...

It would help if that person understood technology, at least well enough to know what it could do. They would need to be able to write. But they also have to be able to seduce stragglers into joining the group in the first place, so they have to be able to understand a marketplace, do outbound selling and non-electronic communications. They have to be able to balance huge amounts of inbound correspondence without making people feel left out, and they have to be able to walk the fine line between rejecting trolls and alienating the good guys.

Since there's no rule book, it would help to be willing to try new things, to be self-starting and obsessed with measurement as well.

If you were great at this, I'd imagine you'd never ever have trouble finding good work.

» Job of the Future: CommunitySuperhero from Life Gives You Lemons
Superhero Chris Brogan (@ChrisBrogan) has been very very kind to this blog, and to many gazillions of us in the social media space. And now we are wondering if this guy knows Seth Godin (or vice versa) because Seth sure just described him perfectly in ... [Read More]

» Perfect Job from forever-digital
Funny he should mention. Ive been browsing around the web for positions like this
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/07/jobs-of-the-fut.html
... [Read More]

» If by "future", you mean right now... from Online Community Report
Seth Godin calls "Online Community Organizer" a "job of the future" in his latest post.
It would help if that person understood technology, at least well enough to know what it could do. They would need to be able to write. But they also have to be abl [Read More]

Tracked on July 20, 2007 at 12:07 AM

» Online Community Organizer is the #1 Job of the Future from Personal Insights on Web 2.0, Blogging, and Business
At least according to Seth Godin. Social networking and online communities are exploding many companies are banking on their community to be a differentiator from the competition. Communities do NOT build themselves without some human nurturing; ... [Read More]

Tracked on July 20, 2007 at 12:32 AM

» What's missing from Facebook? Charities from Just Enough Technology
Why aren't these good people climbing all over the social networks? Members have already given permission to be approached and they bring with them easy access to referrals. It is a fundraisers dream. Establishing and maintaining a personal relationshi... [Read More]

Tracked on July 20, 2007 at 04:35 AM

» Is Community Evangelism the job of thefuture? from Marketing Nirvana by Mario Sundar
Summary: Godin predicts jobs of the future #1 choice: is he talking about the job I have today? List of top community evangelists I know
Source: ACME Photography
Well, Seth Godin just said so. Well, not exactly, because he calls it by... [Read More]

» Online Community Organizer - a job for the future from TechNayak
Everybodys writing about the new social organizer phenomenon, So I thought I could add my two cents to it.
What if you want to hire someone to build an online community? Somebody to create and maintain a virtual world in which all the players in... [Read More]

» Online Community Organizer - a job for thefuture from TechNayak(mirror)
Note : I blog on my personal space at riteshnayak.com/blog . This is a mirror of the content.
Everybodys writing about the new social organizer phenomenon, So I thought I could add my two cents to it.
What if you want to hire someone to build an... [Read More]

Tracked on July 20, 2007 at 07:40 AM

» Managing a virtual community from .:adammclane:.
Or congregation for that matter. I'm trying to sort out the meaning of three things I've read this week. All three have to do with the big question, What is community? and How do you help people form balance in an online community? From a 10,000 foot p... [Read More]

» More On The Perfect Job from forever-digital
Late last week I wrote a quicky little post about Seth Godins article about the number one Job of the Future being an Online Community Manager. I thought I would revisit it in better detail this time around as itR... [Read More]

Tracked on July 22, 2007 at 06:07 PM

» Online Community Organizer from Dissident
Reading Seth Godin's blog this morning I came across what was a very relevant item for me, about jobs for the future - the Online Community Organizer. The proximity of Seth's description of this role with the position I've identified [Read More]

Tracked on July 23, 2007 at 05:22 AM

» Job Security from Willie Fun Entertainment
Looking for a new job that will have some sustainability? Become an Online Community Organizer. Just think if everyone attending the event you are planning felt like they were a part of it before it even happened. How much more [Read More]

Tracked on July 23, 2007 at 12:45 PM

» My Dream Job from Atypical Virtual Associates
Seth Godin posted a great blog post about jobs of the future and the first one listed is Online Community Organizer.
Two things happened simultaneously:
My left eyebrow cocked (it does that when I get intrigued).
I immediately began scanning for infor... [Read More]

Tracked on July 24, 2007 at 01:53 PM

» Online Community Organizing from Orient Lodge
Last Thursday, Seth Godin wrote a post, Jobs of the future, #1: Online Community Organizer. It is a pretty good description some of the stuff that I’ve done for political campaigns and other organizations. One person, reading Seth’s post sent me an [Read More]

Tracked on July 25, 2007 at 11:15 AM

» How to develop and grow an on-line community from Just Enough Technology
Just do it! If you can read this blog you have enough technology. The technology isn't importantFind a service that provides social network hosting or blogging . The application isn't important. Popular ones are Facebook (feel free to send me [Read More]

Tracked on July 26, 2007 at 06:37 AM

» Are you a Hospitalitarian? Are you a Mea Ho‘okipa? from Managing with Aloha
I have recently noticed that Seth Godin is piling up the conversational trackbacks right now about a new job description: Jobs of the future, #1: Online Community Organizer. I’d suggest to everyone showing so much interest in the idea that [Read More]

Tracked on July 26, 2007 at 07:40 PM

» Jobs of the Present from Souhrn příspěvků ze zahraničních webů
In my world, where online groups, communities and networks are the air we breathe, there is a buzz about [Read More]

Tracked on July 29, 2007 at 12:42 AM

» More Money Monday: Community Organizer from No Limits Ladies.
Seth Godin recently posted about his choice for a job of the future. That is, Online Community Organizer. “Somebody to create and maintain a virtual world in which all the players in an industry feel like they need to be... [Read More]

» Jobs at Dogster Inc. from Surfarama
Top dog, Ted Rheingold, emailed the other day pointing out a new position, Community Manager, they have going over at Dogster. I dont know anyone personally who would be a great fit for this, but today Seth Godin posted this thought about jobs o... [Read More]

» Jobs of the future, #1: Online Community Organizer from MikeHickerson.com
A while back, Seth Godin wrote about a job of the future - Online Community Organizer. It struck as very similar to what my role with the Emerging Scholars Network could be: helping to facilitate community and common goals among a large, ... [Read More]